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llerodias jubiita, Biehin, ]'6ij. JJeidnchl. p. 586 (18-'}1). 



Ejjretta garzetta, fSwuins. Clussif. B. ii. p. 354 (1837) ; B}}. Comp. 



List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 47 (1838) ; Macyill. Brit. B. iv. 



p. 471 (1852) ; Brehm, Namn. 1855, p. 290 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 



p. 58 (1856) ; Jaub. et Bnrth.-Lapo7nm. Rich. Orn. p. 361 (1859) ; 



Filippi, Viaqq. Pers. p. 351 (1865) ; Beql. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. 



p. 295 (1867) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 42. fig. 2 (1870) ; Salmd. 



Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 421 (1871); Blakist. l<( Fryer, Ibis, 1878, 



p. 224; Giyl. Airif. Ital. p. 279 (1886); id. \st Resoc. p. 435 



(1889), 2nd Resoc. p. 650 (1890), tird Resoc. p. 511 (1891). 

 Egretta orieutalis, Bi). Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 47 (1838) ; 



Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 58 (1856). 

 Evodius garzetta, Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 135 (1842). 

 Egretta iiigrirostris [nee Gray), Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., 



Grallm, j)!. 63. nos. 639, 641 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 



(1844). 

 Herodias orientalis. Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 78 (1844: 



Nepal) ; id. Cat. Mamm. Sre. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 134 (1846). 

 Egretta lindermayeri, Brehm, Nauvi. 1855, p. 290. 

 Egretta jubata, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 290. 

 (jarzettai egretta, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 118 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend. 



xl. p. 722 (1855) ; Loche, E.vpl. Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 133 (1867) ; 



Sioinh. P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 412 (Soutliern Cliina ; Hainan ; Eorinosa) ; 



Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. p. 112 (1884: Black Sea; Crimea; 



Caucasus; Aralo-Caspiau distr. ; Tbian Shan). 

 Garzetta orieutalis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 119 (1855) ; id. Compt. 



Rend. xl. p. 722 (1855). 

 Ardea egretta, Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 210 (Lydenburg). 

 (iarzetta nivea, Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. p. 159 (1877: 



Toland). 

 (iarzetta garzetta, Radde, Orn. Cauc. pp. 42, 402 (1884). 



Adult male in breeding- plumage. Everywhere snowy white, with 

 two elongated plumes depending from the nape, the dorsal plumes 

 enormously elongated into a beautiful tul't of feathers, which reach 

 a little beyond the tail and are recurved at the ends ; on the fore- 

 neck some elongated narrow plumes : " bill black ; bare skin about 

 the eye and base of bill, whitish fulvescent ; tarsi and shanks 

 black, feet greenish yellow, joints of toes spotted with black on the 

 upper surface ; iris pale ashy yellow, with an outer circle of 

 brownish red" (2'. Ayres). Total length about 20 inches, culmen 3-3, 

 wing 10-5, tail 2-75, tarsus 3-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the ornamental plumes 

 not quite so mucli developed. Total length 22-5 inches, culmen 3-45, 

 wing 11-3, tail 3-U, tarsus 375, middle toe and claw 3-65. 



Adult in winter plumage. Differs from that of the summer 

 ])luraage in the want of all the ornamental plumes. 



Young. Resembles the winter plumage of the adult. 



Bah. Southern Europe, across to China and Japan, south to the 

 Burmese countries and the Indian Peninsula and Ceylon ; Philip- 

 pine Islands ; Malay Peninsula ; the whole of Africa. 



a. -Estiv. sk. Corsica. J. Whitehead, Esq. 



rp.]. 



h. S aestiv. sk. Tunis, Peb. 18, 1857 (O. S.). Salvin-Codman Coll. 

 c. S aestiv. st. ^Vtlicus. Consul Merlin [P.], 



